<p>I was wondering what would be good topics for the Brown personal statement. “In reading your application, we want to get to know you as well as we can. We ask that you use this opportunity to tell us something more about yourself that would help us toward a sense of who you are, how you think, and what issues and ideas interest you most.”</p>
<p>I was thinking of writing about wrestling or the destruction caused by excuses. Is it better to stick to an intellectual topic?</p>
<p>what's unique about you? what makes you stand out from the crowd with similar or even better stats? that's what you want to write about.</p>
<p>Why not combine the two? Write an essay about the time you got destroyed while wrestling someone a lot bigger than you, only because you stayed up too late the night before playing Halo 2? :>)</p>
<p>write something original</p>
<p>I just wrote a personal narrative about an event in my life that kinda shaped me and my interests. Hopefully that was OK. I didn't do a whole lot of description, just one event in my life and I wrote it so my voice came through. Anyway, it was such a broad topic. I took the essay prompt to mean that you could write anything that you wanted as long as it conveyed something important about yourself. its not like I've been admitted or anything (at least not yet...crossing my fingers!), so see what some current students have to say. good luck.</p>
<p>i wrote about a possibility of the meaning of life and one of the flaws of mankind, which shaped my morals---i hope they like it and don't think it's too didactic</p>
<p>i'm just using my 498-word common app one, which explains my unique 1-8th grade educational experience and how it makes me different from my peers</p>
<p>(totally cookie-cutter and i'm not too proud of it but i've lost all confidence in my writing skills as i try to do my 20-page senior thesis. whatever. it's done.)</p>
<p>i wrote mine about one day in my life, and how a billboard i saw that morning affected my actions and lead me to a realization about life. sounds pretty bland, i know, but i took it from an old livejournal entry that i wrote, and it was really from the heart. i think they just want to get a sense of "you," and it's not so much what you write about as it is HOW you write about (it.)</p>
<p>You saw that T.J. Eckleburg advertisement too?</p>